Sport, power, and society
Subtitle: institutions and practices : a reader
By: [edited by] Robert E. Washington and David Karen
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780813344874
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public dollars, private stadiums, and democracy / Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein; title: May the best team win : making baseball competitive / Andrew Zimbalist; title: Rooting the home team : why the Packers won't leave and why the Browns did / David Morris and Daniel Kraker; title: America's fast growing sport / Brian O'Keefe and Julie Schlosser; title: Building a mini metropolis known as the U.S. Open / Bill Pennington; title: Money, myth and the big match : the political economy of the sports media / David Rowe; title: Losing control of the ball : the political economy of football and the media in Australia / Murray Phillips and Brett Hutchins; title: The global sport mass media oligopoly : the three usual suspects and more / Alan Law, Jean Harvey, and Stuart Kemp; title: Football, television, and the Supreme Court : how a decision 20 years ago brought commercialization to the world of college sports / Welch Suggs; title: Marketers are joining the varsity / Stuart Elliott; title: Who's playing college sports? Trends in participation / John Cheslock; title: The game of life : taking stock / James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen; title: Race, cultural capital, and the educational effects of participation in sports / Tamela McNulty Eitle and David Eitle; title: High school football : deep in the heart of South Tejas / Douglas Foley; title: Odd jobs help college teams stay afloat / Teddy Kider; title: Where are the jocks for justice? / Kelly Candale and Peter Dreier; title: Sport, masculinity, and Black cultural resistance / Ben Carrington; title: Televised sport, masculinist moral capital, and support for the invasion of Iraq / Carl Stempel; title: Gay games or gay olympics? Implications for lesbian inclusion / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj; title: Argentina's left-wingers / Leslie Ray; title: Carlos Delgado stands up to war / Dave Zirin; title: Emotionality in the stands and in the field : expressing self through baseball / Nick Trujillo and Bob Krizek; title: Joe Louis uncovers dynamite / Richard Wright; title: Supporters, followers, fans, and flâneurs : a taxonomy of spectator identities in football / Richard Giulianotti; title: Something about baseball : gentrification, race sponsorship, and competing class cultures in neighborhood boys' baseball / Sherri Grasmuck; title: Hardball ain't the only game in Brooklyn anymore / Lee Jenkins and Michael Schmidt; title: Making sense of muscle : the body experiences of collegiate women athletes / Molly George; title: Managing bodily capital / Loïc Wacquant; title: Hindu nationalism, cultural spaces, and bodily practices in India / Ian McDonald; title: Athletes embrace size, rejecting stereotypes / Jeré Longman; title: Male athletes, injuries, and violence / Michael A. Messner; title: The structure of sport and participant violence / John Schneider and D. Stanley Eitzen; title: On-field player violence / Randall Collins; title: Backtalk : violence, redemption and the cost of sports / Robert Lipsyte.